espnW PRESENTS GIRLS IN TECH'S SUPER FOOTBALL APP CHALLENGE HACKATHON

Girls in Tech's weekend-long Hackathon, taking place on January 15th to the 17th, ties-in with America's Biggest Sporting Event, which takes place February 7th at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. iOS and Android app Developers, Designers and Product Developers will team up and have the opportunity to prototype and develop apps that visitors new to San Francisco or staying during the Super Football Week could use.

This two-day hackathon will last day and night and apps are slated to launch 3 weeks prior to the Super Football weekend. These smart phone apps will help visitors have the ultimate San Francisco Football experience possible. We're seeking ideas for developers, designers, and idea people to transform consumer app concepts into a reality. Some of the ideas currently being tossed around are:

A real-time geo-location app for finding fellow football enthusiasts and friends

REQUIREMENTS

Developers should be familiar with third-party APIs, in particular they should be able to:

integrate a REST API in a mobile application (e.g. Android)

call the API endpoints

parse the response

display the data in a meaningful way

UI/UX Designers can team up with developers and create assets/graphics or flows in order to make a great app that is fun and easy to use.

WHAT TO BRING

Your laptop computer

A mobile device if possible (we will not be able to provide testing devices). Alternatively, you can use emulators to test or present your app.

Any cable you may need to connect your mobile device

Pen and paper, and other sketching material

Food will be provided by the organizers!

SCHEDULE

Friday, January 15

6:00 PM: Welcome Remarks

Adriana Gascoigne, CEO & Founder, Girls in Tech

Flavius Popescu, Mobile Engineer, Coffee Meets Bagel

Daniel Pyrathon, Software Developer, Coffee Meets Bagel

Laura Gentile, Senior VP of espnW and Women’s Initiatives

Ryan Spoon, Senior VP of Product Development, ESPN

6:30 PM: Guest speaker

7:00 PM: Group photo

7:15 PM: Drinks, Apps, Music & Meet & Greets

7:30 PM: Past Super Bowl Stats & Flash-pitches

8:30 PM: Ideation Grouping and Table Discussions

10:00 PM: Instructions for Hackathon on Saturday

Saturday, January 16

9:00 AM: Breakfast and Check-in

9:30 AM: Team Idea “Re-pitching”

10:00 AM: Hacking Begins

10:30 AM: TechDive

11:00 AM: Lightning Talks

12:00 PM: Lunch Break

2:00 PM: Yoga & Meditation with Denise Colby

4:00 AM: TechDive

7:00 PM: Dinner Break

12:00 AM (Jan. 17): Hackathon continues at 10:00 AM

Sunday, January 17

10:00 AM: Final Hacking & Demo Preparation

11:00 AM: TechDive

12:00 PM: Lunch Break

3:00 PM: Hacking Stops

3:30 PM: Demos and Feedback

6:00 PM: Judging and Prizes

7:00 PM: Concluding Remarks

The Girls in Tech Hackathon is a code-a-thon where developers, designers, scientists, students, entrepreneurs and educators gather to collaborate on projects including applications, software, hardware, data visualization and platform solutions. This event gives participants the chance to flex their skills, work with fellow hackers, and learn something new, such as a programming language or API. Mentors are present to guide the attendees on the platform or technology chosen for the event.

The Hackathon is an open event (both male and female participants are welcomed) that promotes gender equality and bridging the gap in the technology and start-up spaces. The work developed in this event is appraised by an experienced panel of judges; every participant will be rewarded for their contribution, but extra prizes are available for standout Hackathon stars!

HACKATHON LEADERS

Flavius Popescu

Android Engineer @ Coffee Meets Bagel

Flavius grew up in Romania with a passion for all things tech and started teaching himself programming in C++. He went on to pursue a degree at Edinburgh University where he studied Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science.

While in Edinburgh he also mentored primary school teams for the FIRST Lego League and was a science communicator at Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Daniel Pyrathon

Daniel is a software engineer currently based in San Francisco working at Coffee Meets Bagel, an online dating and social networking site.

Daniel worked at Skimlinks in London where he was involved in various sectors of the company: from the web application, the front-end, natural language processing, and search. He also worked at Pathflow, a business intelligence startup, where he was responsible of architecting and building a real- time computer vision analytics engine. Daniel is very passionate about the Python community, this led him to become a Django contributor and was accepted as part of Google Summer of Code 2014.